“And now,” the Burgomaster asked, “what shall we do about the leak?” So the Burgomaster called a meeting of the Burghers, and they agreed that the boy had heroically saved Holland. “You shall be rewarded! Meanwhile, keep your finger there while I call the Burghers together.” “I saw the dike leaking, so I stuck my finger in the hole.” “I am stopping a leak,” the boy explained. “Young man,” he said with a certain amount of sternness, “why are you poking your finger in the dike?” He was rather tired, and his finger felt a bit numb from the effort of holding back the North Sea, but he knew he was doing his duty.Īt last the Burgomaster happened to pass by. He couldn’t move, because as soon as he did, the leak would start again. He stuck his finger in the dike, and the leak stopped. So he did the only thing he could think of. The whole country could be flooded, and everyone he knew would drown. What should he do? From a single leak, a terrible breach might grow. ONCE THERE WAS a little Dutch boy who discovered a leak in the dike. Boli’s Fables for Children Who Are Too Old to Believe in Fables.
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